This archive contains a number of texts published or authored by members of the Wessex Regionalists and affiliated movements and shall be expanded gradually (last upload: May 2026).
1. Campaign materials and pamphlets
James Crabb for Winchester Eastgate, local manifesto for our participation in the 2026 Hampshire County Council elections (Winchester Eastgate division). James won 49 votes, roughly ~0.8% of valid ballots.
Wessex Regionalism: A Twelve Point Programme, from a historical Party leaflet.
Your Region Needs You, by Chris Dawe, former Party President, being a party pamphlet introducing the party – containing an essay, “The Case for Regionalism,” and an early twelve-point policy programme (early 1980s).
3. Other regionalist texts
Memorandum by the Wessex Constitutional Convention, written evidence given by the erstwhile all-party pressure group, the Wessex Constitutional Convention, to the Select Committee on Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions (2004).
The Statute of Wessex, a hypothetical constitutional proposal outlining how a devolved Wessex assembly would work, and which powers would or would not be devolved to this body (3rd impression, April 1996; originally published 1982).
Why I Am A Regionalist, by Alexander Thynne, being the transcript of a speech to the Devolve! think-tank (April 2000).